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...didn't work out that way. Arriving in the Thai town of Mae Sot, she and her fellow clinicians learned that their skills were sorely needed there. Thousands of activists had also fled through the jungle, many staggering into Thailand sick with malaria. To care for them, she set up a makeshift clinic in a nearby barn. As the trickle of evacuees turned into a flood, many of the expats arriving in Thailand headed straight for the clinic...
...Mae Hagan walked out to Flood Street-a moonscape of cracked mud, debris and ghostly cars that drifted in on the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina-slipped the surgical mask off her face and turned back to look at her devastated home. "It's even worse in there than I thought it would be, and I can't find any pictures or memories," said Hagan, 40. "But I'm still going to rebuild. I was born and raised here. I ain't leavin...
...threat of drought, of starving cattle, of anxious creditors. We would survive a while longer." Self-reliance was also a political value: her father Harry was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. And it was a reason to respect knowledge: O'Connor's mother Ada Mae, a college graduate, would read to her from the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal, and when Sandra was 5 years old she went to El Paso, Texas, where she lived with her grandmother and went to Radford, a private girls' school...
...Mae West's refusal to marry is symptomatic of narcissism, then and now: "Every time I look at myself, I become absorbed in myself, and I didn't want to get involved with another person like that...
...Father of Invention In our Milestone on the passing of Andrew Toti [April 11], we mistakenly said the inflatable flotation vest (commonly known as the Mae West) was his invention. Peter Markus, who died in 1973, won the first patent for the inflatable life preserver...